Austin Butler Lands Male Lead on The Carrie Diaries

The Carrie Diaries has found its Mr. Big.

Deadline reports that Austin Butler (Life Unexpected, Switched at Birth) has been cast on The CW pilot as Sebastian Kydd, a brooding heartthrob at Carrie Bradshaw's high school who will play a key role on this Sex and the City prequel.

The Carrie Diaries is based on a Candace Bushnell novel by the same name and will star AnnaSophia Robb as the character Sarah Jessica Parker made famous. It will follow her life in the 1980s as a teenager in NYC.

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